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The rollout for Captain Marvel has hardly been a smooth ride. There were its many years stuck in development hell, and the embarrassment that Marvel’s rivals at DC finally managed to best them with its ground-shifting, box office-breaking female superhero picture Wonder Woman in 2017.

But Captain Marvel itself, which today debuted its second trailer, remains an incredibly important step for the Marvel brand, not only in its existence as the first Marvel Universe film lead by a female hero (over a decade into its existence,...